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Pacific front

While Pearl Harbor was
getting bombed, Japan was
also bombing Guam, islands
of Wake, and the
Philippines

All U.S. bases

Mid- Dec. Japan captured
the Philippines and sent
American/Filipino troops
retreating

Bataan Death March

Bataan Death March

Battle of midway

4 Japanese aircraft
carriers and hundred of
airplanes destroyed

Island hopping

General MacArthur and
Admiral Chester Nimitz

U.S. ships destroyed
most of the Japanese
fleet at the Battle of
Leyte Gulf in the
Philippines

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Kamikazes- Japanese pilots fly into
U.S. navy ships

Atomic bomb

https://www.historyhit.com/what-was-the-significance-of-the-battles-of-iwo-jima-and-okinawa/

Iwo Jima and Okinawa casualties/deaths/MIA were high

How can U.S. end the war with least amount of U.S.
casualties?

Atomic Bomb

While FDR alive, he started the Manhattan Project

President Truman was the one to decide to use A Bomb

Multiple Choice

What U.S. President decided to drop the Atomic Bomb?

• FDR

• Teddy Roosevelt

• JFK

• Truman

Potsdam declaration

Promised if Japan did not surrender, it faced “prompt and
utter destruction”

Japan ignored this

President Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb

Japan surrenders

August 6, 1945- Enola Gay dropped the a bomb on Hiroshima-
killed b/t 80,000-120,000 people

Aug. 9- Nagasaki- killed b/t 35,000-74,000 people

Aug. 15, 1945- V-J Day

Sep. 2, 1945- Japan formally surrenders aboard the
battleship Missouri

WWII ends

Multiple Choice

What day did Japan surrender?

• 9/2/1945

• 8/24/1945

• 12/7/1944

• 9/1/1941

Costs of the war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgRwDkP6vk

55 million people- more than half were civilians

American casualties-322,000 dead/ 800,000 wounded

Soviet Union- 18 million dead